Personal Rating: 2.8 Stars Goodreads Rating: 3.41 Stars You ever open your locker and find that some joker has left something really weird inside? Seventh-grader Dorso Clayman opens his locker door to find a dead body. Thirty seconds later it disappears. It’s not the first bizarre thing that has appeared in his locker and then vanished. Something’s going on. Somebody has decided to make Dorso and his buddy Frank the target of some strange techno-practical jokes. The ultimate gamesters have hacked into the time line, and things from the past are appearing in the present. Soon, the jokes aren’t funny anymore—they’re dangerous. Dorso and Frank have got to beat the time hackers at their own game by breaking the code, before they get lost in the past themselves. (goodreads.com) I picked up this skinny little book at a booksale at one of the libraries I frequent, saw it was about time travel, and decided to give it a shot. While I was not really disappointed in the book, that could have been because I wasn’t really expecting much from it in the first place. The book itself is only 87 pages long and the text is pretty big so I already wasn’t expecting much from the plot. The characters were kind of boring, being stereotypical static young teen boys. But it was a pleasant enough way to occupy my brain during my lunch break. If you do decide to pick up this book for yourself, I would highly recommend you don’t eat anything during the first few pages. The description of the things found in Dorso’s locker are somewhat vivid. And when you are trying a dubious smelling microwave meal to begin with, it might make you lose your appetite. Just saying. Dorso and his pal, Frank, are rather dull characters. It’s one of those stories where the characters acting out the plot don’t matter as much as the plot itself. We hardly got to know any of the people in this book. Really, all we know about Frank is that he wants to try and look at naked ladies. That’s pretty much everything I know about Frank. So yeah… gross, Frank, go look at dinosaurs instead. We do see some of Dorso’s home life, but just in the teeniest snatches. And the other few characters that get thrown in are really boring. I think my favorite was Dorso’s little sister and she was barely in it. On a side note, for some reason my brain can't pronounce Dorso's name as Dorso, it reads it as Dorito. So if we are ever having a face to face discussion about this book forgive me if I talk about delicious chips and not a seventh grade boy. The plot was interesting enough to keep me reading. I wanted to see what was going to happen next and who was behind all of the time hacking. The ending was anticlimactic in my opinion and very convenient. Resolving itself by way of many coincidences and accidents, the ending was almost hard to follow along with. I think for a book that relied so heavily on its plot to keep the story interesting it should have had a more in depth plot. Of course, the book was only 87 pages, so maybe it did a brilliant job for such a short story. Then again, some of my “learning to read” books were shorter than this and had better characters and more riveting plots. Regardless, it wasn’t so boring that I put it down and, like I said, it wasn’t as if I was expecting much from this book to begin with, so it was… okay. Relatively. I’d recommend this book for maybe third and fourth graders, I feel like they might enjoy it more than I did. For anyone seventh grade and up, it’s kind of a long shot that you’ll like it I think. Thanks for reading this short review for this short book. I hope my next review won’t be so far in the future as this one was from my last one. I have Thursdays off now so I’m thinking I might try to post every week again. We’ll see how it goes I guess. (You know and I both know that I stink at sticking to schedules.) See you in the future my friends! Image: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2919.The_Time_Hackers
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